James Baldwin, a writer, poet and a playwright tells of his fathers death and the family life preceding his fathers death; John Edgar Wideman went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and currently is a English Professor at the University of Massachutes at Amherst. ... Although the two have similarities in education and family discontent, they both continue to discursively reflect on what they perceived to be the real relationship with white and black in America. ... The bond came about after Robby, Wideman's brother went to prison. Wideman tried to understand his brother, the bond between th...

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The setting is from the 1950's through the 1960's in Troy Maxson's yard with family and friends that have very different relationships with Troy. ... Troy is older and with this type of talk and behavior, tries to establish himself as the family leader. Rose, in fact turns out to be the true bond and emotional leader in the family, which is an irony that Wilson presents. Wilson typically paints a picture of black families as in the woman being the solid core, and the man, with a large ego trying to discover who he is. ... The fence may be perceived as a device of containment...

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A white man from an upscale family managed to comfort and calm this large gathering of mainly African-American people. ... I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man. ... A powerful white man from an upscale family has associated with this huge mass of African-Americans. ... Notice his word choice: "I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man." ... He does not want to call attention and bring pity to the Kennedy name at that time, but only to bond with the crowd and respect Martin Luther King Jr. ...

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Before Baldwin ever knew what racism was, his father was in the trenches fighting the war for equal rights for himself and his family. ... It was extremely difficult to keep up with the dream that his family had for him. ... This man was no exception to that rule as he tried his hardest to support his family and to keep his children away from what they are not prepared to face. ... While Baldwin believed that he was having a rough time, the people in Harlem were beginning to receive letters and phone calls from their family and friends in the military. ... Instead of makin...

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When the slaves learned they were free there was a feeling of excitement, followed by one of the reality that they were now responsible for providing for their families, shelter, food, clothing and a better way of life. He talks about the connection and bond that they continued to share, as the slaves began to prosper and the master and his family began to suffer. ... s family. ... He believed that man must have skills and should be able to provide for himself and his family. ...

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___'s house, she goes to Africa with a family of Christian missionaries. ... Together they share a bond and she finds comfort in Nettie after her husband dies. ... One of the themes of The Color Purple is love redeems, hate kills and for Walker, redemptive love requires female bonding. ...

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Family, desire to learn, and the way they portray people, are some of these ways. ... Frederick's family has an enormous impact on him because they steal his passion away from him. ... Without a family, Richard had to jump from job to job and steal from local places, such as the movie theater, just to make a few bucks. ... "My life as a Negro in America had led me to feel that the problem of human unity was more important that bread, more important than physical living itself; for I felt that without a common bond uniting men...there could be no living worthy of being called h...

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Dear Momma addressed the power of family to a young man raised in the ghetto. ... It was the family unity that was created by a strong mother that makes it possible for a young man raised with nothing to go out to the world with the strength to try to make it. ... The imprint is the importance of family ties in inner city culture and the need for a change towards a more opportunistic, optimistic and united society for those coming out of the inner city. ... They focus on family and the power of change. ...

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Their large families "seemed to indicate a lack of self-control" which was the colonists" form of birth control. ... Little did they know that they had many common experiences with the black race: Practically every accusation that has been made against the American blacks was also made against the Irish: Their family life was inferior, they had no ambition, they did not keep up their homes, they drank too much, they were not responsible, they had no morals, it was not safe to walk through their neighborhoods at night, they voted the way crooked politicians told them to vote, they...

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She tells the story of a magnificent friendship between two young women living in Alabama in the 1930s, Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jameson, who forge a powerful bond after witnessing the terrible tragedy of Idgie's brother's death together. ... Evelyn also is an altruistic personality in the beginning of the movie, spending her life to solely please her family. ... Otis's family, or the majority. ... Ninny knew the best thing for her child, family and herself was to raise her child herself. Institutionalizing the child wouldn't benefit anyone, raising him brought happines...

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Everything was about working and saving money, instead of a loving and caring family environment. ... "I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow Of human blood in human veins My soul has grown deep like the rivers" This poem describes how he and his family are like flowing rivers. ... We all share a common bond, even though we are different in so many ways. ...

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On this block everyone was treated like a family. ... The Harlem Renaissance had a common bond with everyone associated with it. ... Many families were single parent households, usually headed by women. ... Often they were not family members. ...

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Sir Richard Attenborough came from a radical family and he left home at the age of seventeen to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. ... They were involved in bringing Basque refugee children out of Spain during the Civil War and persecuted Jewish families out of Germany under Hitler's autocracy. ... Later, Biko takes Woods to a black township to educate him on the injustices of apartheid and to bond together. ...

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Unlike South Africa where there was a strong sense of tribal unity or in Brazil where slaves were imported relatively frequently giving them a sense of family and a bond with each other, American slaves were second or third generation slaves who new nothing of there culture or native lands and who where stripped from there family at a early age. ...

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Soon Celie's mother dies, leaving her to tend to the family. ... The woman is very sick and comes to live with Mr. __ and the rest of the family. ... This man hates Shug and tries to discourage the family from letting her stay. ... Combine this with the extended family structure and the reader perceives a very dysfunctional family situation. ... Soon Nettie begins working for a missionary family (the same family which adopted Olivia and Adam, Celie's two children) which is preparing to leave for Africa. ...

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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on th...

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